Laurence

MEN
OF THIS VILLAGE WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY
IN THE WAR 1914 – 1918
AND GAVE THEIR LIVES IN HER DEFENCE.
THESE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE

ALSO 1939 – 1945

BROWN

Eric

Corporal
2067340, 579th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Killed during the
evacuation at Dunkirk 17th June 1940. Aged 20. Born bedford, resident
Bedfordshire. Son of George and Elizabeth Jane Brown, of Bedford.
Information
at Keysoe Chapel on Eric Brown indicates his mother was Elizabeth
Jane Brown who died 30th March 1938, aged 42 years, probaly from
burns received when a lamp fell over. His father was George Brown
who died 16th June 1969, aged 76 years, who was born in Keysoe circa
1893. No known grave. Commemorated on DUNKIRK MEMORIAL, Nord, France.
Column 22.